From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Sat Jan 17 10:27:11 2004 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0HIP72n010231 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from imo-r01.mx.aol.com (imo-r01.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.97]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0HIO41l010184 for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:24:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from [[email protected]] by imo-r01.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v36_r4.12.) id t.29.4f437ce5 (15901) for <[[email protected]]>; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:23:58 -0500 (EST) Received: from oemcomputer.cs.com (adsl-63-203-77-63.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.203.77.63]) by air-id09.mx.aol.com (v97.18) with ESMTP id MAILINID94-3e1d40097dbd300; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 13:23:58 -0500 Message-Id: <[[email protected]]> X-Sender: [[email protected]] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1.1 Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 10:26:31 -0800 To: SBB <[[email protected]]> From: Eric Feuss <[[email protected]]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-AOL-IP: 63.203.77.63 Subject: [SBB] Alviso sightings X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Yesterday (1-16-2004), I spent 15 minutes at the Gold Street bridge in Alviso. The time was shortly after 1:00 PM, such that it took all fifteen minutes to finally get a brief glimpse at one of the Swamp Sparrows in this vicinity. I say one, because Tuesday morning (1-13-2004) of this week, I birded from the bridge for almost a whole hour and observed at least two distinct individuals (apologies for this tardy report). Their behavior was interesting, because they were following each other around the river bottom for a good 60% of the time I observed them. I could never quite tell whether they were chasing each other, trying to establish (wintering) territories, or whether there was some other associated interest in each other - perhaps communal like the communal feeding of White- and Golden-crowned Sparrows. Also of interest was the observations of six species of sparrows in the river bottom, as viewed just from the bridge. The Oddities (at least to me) were: a Fox Sparrow who was trying to 'scratch' in the bay mud - it was quite a silly sight, and a Lincoln's Sparrow. The other four species of sparrow comprising the six were: Golden-crowned, White-crowned, Song, and Swamp. I saw these same species Friday, from the Gold Street bridge, all except the Fox Sparrow. Other birds present included Marsh Wren, Least Sandpiper, Common Yellowthroat, Long-billed Dowitchers, and more. All for now, Eric Feuss _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]